Tiger Woods and Ernie Els have ruled out shorter hitters from any hope of wearing the Masters’ champion green jacket after taking a sneak peek at changes at Augusta National Golf Club. Speaking on the eve of the ,5-million US PGA Bay Hill Invitational, world number one Woods warned that the course might now be the most difficult in golf.
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The rape trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma enters its ninth day in the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday. After more than a week of sensational and at times graphic medical testimony, proceedings on Wednesday focused on the technicalities of the investigation.
A month ago, South African investors were exuberant. Both the currency and the stock market, after years of remarkable strength, seemed bullet proof. Suddenly, however, we found both our currency and our stock market being kicked for no apparent reason a week ago.
Class is out at Sarkh Doz, a sleepy village near the sweeping Helmand river. A ghostly silence fills the school playground, the gate is bolted shut and the proud yellow classrooms have been reduced to a blackened shell of cinders. Taliban arsonists set the blaze, locals say.
Days before Israel’s military assault on Jericho prison it warned Britain and the United States that it would seize Palestinians held there under an international agreement for killing an Israeli Cabinet minister if the two countries withdrew their monitors.
Feelings are running high in the Serbian town of Pozarevac, whose most famous son, former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic, is coming home to rest in peace. As preparations step up for a funeral on Saturday under the gaze of the world, 500 people from his Socialist Party gathered in the local cultural centre and roundly accused the UN war crimes court where he died of killing him.
Four men have appeared in the Johannesburg Commercial Crimes Court in connection with a series of thefts that cost nine pension funds R213-million, police said on Wednesday. They were arrested at their homes on Tuesday night and charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, theft and money laundering. All are aged between 60 and 70.
Journalist Lynda Loxton, parliamentary correspondent for Business Report, died in a Cape Town hospital on Wednesday evening. Business Report editor Alide Dasnois said Loxton had been in a coma for several weeks, following an accident boarding a suburban train in the city last month.
The woman who blew the whistle on the accounting scandal that brought down Enron spoke on Wednesday about how she tried to get out of the firm when she discovered the extent of its dodgy accounting. From June 2001, Sherron Watkins, who joined Enron in 1993, worked for Andrew Fastow, the disgraced former chief financial officer.
A man will on Thursday contest legislation preventing him from inheriting his gay partner’s estate after his partner died without leaving a will, the man’s attorney said on Wednesday. ”Mark Gory ‘married’ his partner in a commitment ceremony. Since they had no children, he should be recognised as the surviving spouse of his partner and therefore the legal heir to his partner’s estate,” said Gory’s attorney, Crystal Cambanis.